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Selective Service -- Corresp. -- General Corresp 2 [McDaniel Lewis papers]

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Title	Selective Service -- Corresp. -- General Corresp 2 [McDaniel Lewis papers]
Date	1943-1948
Creator (individual)	Lewis, McDaniel
Subject headings	Greensboro (N.C.) -- History--20th century World War, 1939-1945
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	Included in this folder is correspondence relevant to McDaniel Lewis in his position as Chairman of Board #2 of the Guilford County Selective Service System. There are items such as meeting notifications, donation acknowledgements, and expressions of appreciation for service. A letter invites Lewis to a Civitan Club event held at the O’Henry Hotel to honor Draft Board personnel; General J. Van B. Metts was the speaker. The folder also includes a response to a questionnaire completed by Mary Dettmering regarding her father Frederick Dettmering’s service and a letter from J. Horner regarding potential 2-A classification wherein he notes deferments given to baseball players. Of particular interest, the folder includes a list of members of the Greensboro Clearing House Committee, the resolution passed by Henry K. Burtner Post #53 of the American Legion regarding bus overcrowding, and a summary letter written by James Morgan that details the history of the Greensboro Draft Boards.
Type	Text
Original format	correspondence telegrams
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language	en
Contributing institution	Greensboro History Museum
Contact Information	http://library.uncg.edu/dp/ttt/greensborohistory.aspx
Source collection	Mss. Coll. 41 McDaniel Lewis Papers
Series/grouping	World War II. 1942-50
Folder	45.34: Selective Service -- Corresp. -- General Corresp 2
Finding aid link	http://archives.greensborohistory.org/manuscripts/lewis-mcdaniel
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Additional rights information	COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED. The copyright status of this item has not been fully evaluated and may vary for different parts of the item. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	GHM_MSS041.045.034
Digital access format	Image/jpeg
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
Sponsor	LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html
OCLC number	876876970

Selective Service -- Corresp. -- General Corresp 2 [McDaniel Lewis papers]

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